/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 */
package org.opendaylight.controller.config.persist.api;

public interface PropertiesProvider {
    /**
     * Get property value for given key. Implementation of this interface is allowed to prefix
     * the key with a namespace.
     */
    String getProperty(String key);

    /**
     * @return prefix + key as used in getProperty method.
     */
    String getFullKeyForReporting(String key);

    String getPrefix();
    String getPropertyWithoutPrefix(String fullKey);
}
